Definition of Bestiaries. Meaning of Bestiaries. Synonyms of Bestiaries

- A bestiary (Latin: bestiarium vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the ancient world, bestiaries were made po****r in the Middle Ages in...
- A Bestiary Of is a compilation album by the Creatures (aka singer Siouxsie and musician Budgie), issued on CD in 1997. It compiled remastered recordings...
- and the classical griffin represented a guardian of the dead. Medieval bestiaries included animals regardless of biological reality; the basilisk represented...
- Latin Bestiaries take their origin from the Gr**** work Physiologus, though the word can colloquially be used with less specificity. Bestiaries are not...
- and trees. Bestiaries in general function as teaching aids for clerics. In modern scholarship, the Northumberland Bestiary and other bestiaries entries on...
- September 2012. McCulloch, Florence (1960). Mediaeval Latin and French Bestiaries. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Payne, Ann (1990). Medieval...
- The Maltese Bestiary: An illustrated guide to the mythical flora and fauna of the Maltese Islands is a 2014 compendium of legendary beasts from Maltese...
- led to the bonnacon's inclusion in medieval bestiaries. In the tradition of the Physiologus, bestiaries often ascribed moral and scriptural lessons to...
- magnificent wash drawings and the layout are reminiscent of the fantastic bestiaries of the Middle Ages. The text, mixing legends, real-life stories and hearsay...
- appear together in some Latin bestiaries of the First Family subgroup called B-Isidore ("B-Is"). Sirens in bestiaries The siren's bird-like description...